Secret author Ariadne Oliver has been invited to a Hallowe'en get together at Woodleigh universal. one of many different visitors is a young person woman identified for telling stories of homicide and intrigue ? Dand for being as a rule disagreeable. but if the woman, Joyce, is located drowned in an apple-bobbing bathtub, Mrs. Oliver wonders after the fictitious nature of the girl's declare that she had as soon as witnessed a homicide.